The night of falling money.....
The month of August is half gone on earth
As evening comes they throw on shawls and scarfs.
The time has come for wasps of noble-birth
to settle on their parasitic banquet.
As women tell their fortunes over jam: Lazy and vigilant, sharp-eyed but blind. I gaze at the window where time resides
disguised as softly dying summer.
This image of carousing wasps could only appeal to those who haven't boiled jam. Here is brewing a stronger broth:
Devouring life while seeming uninvolved.
For me there was never such a summer.
"And there will never be another," I hear proclaimed.
I shudder: for an Money has just fallen,
And put its accent on the "Never" from within.
The frightened heart beats faster, out of time, A shame, poor thing, to watch it beat so madly; Does the close
neighborhood of non-existence affect it so unmercifully sadly?
No, this is August, time for falling money, I simply do not recognize what's said, My anger flared because those silly
money so clearly on the "not" put their stress.
So let it be - the shorter and the dearer. Thus it goes on the night of money falling. Munching and trumpling over all
fecundity sweet life comes home from all its cheerful strolling.